People don't pay much attention to you when you are second best. I wanted to see what it felt like to be number one.

I couldn't wait until I grew up. I used to look at my mom's stockings and put them on with her high heels and mess with my hair.

When anyone tells me I can't do anything, I'm just not listening anymore.

You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running.

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side.

A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.

Injuries made me a believer in cross-training.